Novus Prime: Vindication Comes to PlayStation Home Wednesday

Hellfire Games is proud to announce that Novus Prime: Vindication, the newest expansion for our multiplayer space shooter Novus Prime, is coming to PlayStation Home this Wednesday, January 11th. We’ve been hard at work on Vindication for several months, and we’re looking forward to hearing what you all think! Here’s a preview of what to expect with the newest expansion:

Leveling Up the Core Experience

Since the launch of Novus Prime in December 2010, we’ve learned a lot about what our players enjoy most about the Novus Prime experience. With Vindication, we knew we had to deliver more missions, ships, weapons, avatar items, outfits, and more – but we’re also excited to give our community their #1 request: raising the level cap from 20 to 30 and adding tons of new rewards!

With the new expansion, players will now unlock rewards at every other level. This means players who’ve already reached the rank of Captain at level 20 will instantly earn several rewards when they log in to Novus Prime: Vindication. Newcomers will earn more rewards than ever before as they rise up the ranks to Commander.

Players will find several new items in the shop to improve their game experience in Novus Prime, including the Tech Goggles & Enemy Scanner bundle, the super-fast Obsidian Blade fighter ship, and our new Memory Conditioning Conduit bundle, which comes with three virtual items and permanently triples your XP point gains so you can rank up even faster.

Meet the Obsidian Race

We’re also expanding Novus Prime’s lore as the new playable Obsidian race joins Earth Fleet against the Bot armada. Aside from some concept art we’ve cleverly hidden away in Novus Prime’s VIP area, not much has been made public about the Obsidian race until now. With Vindication, everyone can join the fight as an Obsidian fighter with the Obsidian Pilot Suit bundle, which comes with some seriously unique custom animations as well as the Obsidian Blade, the fastest player ship in the game.

Here’s your first glimpse at the new Obsidian technology before Vindication goes live:

Finally, we know our veteran players have been clamoring for more missions (that’s our second most requested update), so we’ve truly expanded Novus Prime’s core content this time around. Novus Prime: Vindication delivers two challenging new missions (“Claustrophobia” and “Wrecker’s Waltz”) as well as Master versions of every current mission, so there’s no shortage of adventures to be had with your friends in the cold confines of space. Keep an eye out for the new Executioner mini-boss!

More Ways to Join the Fight

We’re big fans of the recently-redesigned PlayStation Home core experience, and one of its coolest features is the opportunity to find great new games in each of the Districts. Starting January 11th, players can warp straight to the Novus Prime space station from our new Action District location – just look for the colossal hovering spaceship.

Last but not least, we’re celebrating the launch of Novus Prime: Vindication and our recent 1-year anniversary in PlayStation Home by giving away this free Personal Lightning Shield virtual item as a token of appreciation for our fans!

It’s been just over a year since we made PlayStation Home our own home for quality game development, and we’ve got big plans for 2012! We’d like to say thanks to everyone in the PlayStation Home community for your support, and we look to hearing what you think about Novus Prime: Vindication.

If you love free stuff, don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to get the latest Novus Prime updates and code giveaways straight to your new feed, and remember to Join the Fight on Wednesday, January 11th!

“For those having trouble getting their free Lightning Shield code, try using Firefox or Chrome (Internet Explorer doesn’t play nice with the app) and enabling pop-ups. Refresh the page and it should work!

If you still can’t get your code, e-mail us at info (at) hellfiregames.com and we’ll get you sorted out. Can’t wait to see what everyone thinks of the new expansion.”

SWEET mother of God!!! keep up guys Home is getting better and better. You guys should give us the option to install the client to our system so dont have stream the whole game every time I want to play it. I really want to get in there but then I remember that I have to spent a least 10 minutes just so I start seeing people in the world.

For those having trouble getting their free Lightning Shield code, try using Firefox or Chrome (Internet Explorer doesn’t play nice with the app) and enabling pop-ups. Refresh the page and it should work!

If you still can’t get your code, e-mail us at info (at) hellfiregames.com and we’ll get you sorted out. Can’t wait to see what everyone thinks of the new expansion!

the outfit shown for Vindication looks awesome ,hope the price is reasonable . love everything about this update but level cap should be 50 . thanks for regular updates and not resting on your past achievements as many Home devs seem to do .

Eeeek like they said 1000 times just email them. You dont need facebook, if you posted here you obviously have an email. Not to mention its not their fault that you choose to stay away from facebook. If its such a big deal, make a fake account for 2 minutes, get the code, then deactivate facebook. Theres no reason to complain

I hope the new rewards aren’t covered in logo branding like the pilot jackets.

Because, lemme tell ya, that kind of stuff backfires in PSHome. You put your logo on the back of the jacket … why? To spread your game! Get people to come over! Play! Maybe spend!

But what really happens is that the logo on the back is unattractive and nobody wants to wear the pilot jacket. The logo makes it ugly. The back is so plain, but this glaring, out of place logo. It doesn’t make sense to be there.

If you make cool items, people will come to your place because the items are cool. That’s all there is to it. The pilot jackets are all neat designs … except for that logo. (The backsides are really plain besides, but that was probably so the only eyegrabbing feature on the back would be that awful logo.)

I never had an interest in Novus Prime before due to the lack of interesting rewards, but a reward every other level seems good. Is that officer suit for females as well? That’s going to be one of the biggest selling points for me if it is. I am especially interested in the Obsidian race as well.

Also, is there going to be more to the home update this week then Novus Prime?

So i bout the New space ship bundle for Novus and when i go to play, everything loads but the retrieving character stays up. i cant play the game at all until that goes away D: i’ve been waiting for hours now, is anyone else having this problem? i cleared the cache and rebooted n all that.